Chemex Coffeemaker
Cafetera Chemex
- Date
- 1941 · confidence high
- Place
- New York, United States
- Credited to
- Peter Schlumbohm
- Field
- Tools
What it is
One-piece blown-glass manual pour-over coffeemaker designed by chemist and inventor Peter Schlumbohm, recognized as an icon of 20th-century industrial design.
What it led to
- Popularization of the manual pour-over brewing method
- Inclusion in the permanent collection of New York's MoMA
- Influence on later coffeemaker designs
- Rise of the specialty coffee movement